History Recap / TheSimpsonsS3E12IMarriedMarge

* MakingLoveInTheWrongPlaces: Homer and Marge end up conceiving Bart inside a mini-golf castle.

* PanickyExpectantFather: {{Inverted}}: Marge goes into labor the same day Homer finally manages to get hired at the power plant, and he's on such a confidence high that he not only finally puts Patty and Selma in their place but is on the verge of trying to elbow out the doctor and deliver Bart himself before Marge stops him.

-->"Thanks a lot, Mr. Blow-The-Picture-For-Me!"

* HonkingArrivingCar: Played with in a flashback, as Homer arrives to take Marge out on a date while she's talking to her mother and sisters.
-->'''Marge:''' You don't know Homer like I do. He's sensitive and sweet.
-->'''Homer:''' ''(HONK!)'' [[InstantlyProvenWrong Marge! Get your butt out here!]]
* HonorableMarriageProposal: {{Subverted}} with Abe's motivation for telling Homer to marry a pregnant Marge.
-->'''Homer:''' Because it's the honorable thing to do?
-->'''Abe:''' No! Because you'll never do any better! You lucky bum! The fish jumped right in the boat! All you gotta do is whack her with the oar!

--->'''Homer:''' After all, you wouldn't be here today if I hadn't become the responsible head of a household.
--->'''Bart:''' Hey Homer, can we have a can of frosting for lunch?
--->'''Homer:''' Okay.

** ''{{Series/Dallas}}'': Homer wears an "I Shot J.R." shirt.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Homer first suggests getting a job at the power plant, Marge expresses concern that the radiation could make him sterile ("[[{{Cuckoosnarker}} Now you tell me]]"), and the FrameStory ends with Homer and Marge celebrating the news that she's not pregnant again. In the season finale, "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?", [[spoiler:Burns discovers that working at the power plant ''has'' made Homer sterile and pays him off with a $2000 check to avoid a lawsuit, setting the stage for the events that follow.]]

* BerserkButton: Marge's mother reacts badly to Homer calling her "Mom".

-->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' If I didn't know better I'd swear he was trying to moon us.

* AmbiguousInnocence: Bart displayed some possible EarlyPersonalitySigns which Dr. Hibbert and Marge didn't think of as deliberate behavior: he kept turning his back on the ultrasound screen, prompting the comment from Hibbert that "if I didn't know better I'd swear he was trying to moon us," and in a portentous first encounter with Homer, he managed to grab a lighter from his pocket and set his tie on fire, which an aggrieved Homer insisted he'd done on purpose. Marge replied quite reasonably that he was only ten minutes old, [[HilariousInFlashback but given everything we know about Bart]], [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Homer's claim is not hard to believe]].

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: When a newborn Bart manages to light his tie on fire, Homer is sure that he did it on purpose, to which Marge replies "How could he? He's only ten minutes old!" [[EarlyPersonalitySigns Given what we know of Bart]], Homer wasn't wrong.

* FetusTerrible: An unborn Bart was clearly already Bart.

* CouchGag: The family cartwheels to the couch and lands with a "ta-da" pose.
* ChekhovsGun: Among his other failings, Marge's family snarks about the amount of hair a newly-balding Homer is shedding on their couches. It's this hair that alerts Patty and Selma to Homer's presence at the Gulp 'n' Blow.

* EarlyPersonalitySigns: Even before a ten-minute-old Bart set Homer's tie on fire, [[FetusTerrible he was trying to moon Hibbert and Marge on an ultrasound screen]].

* EarlyPersonalitySigns: Even before a ten-minute-old Bart set Homer's tie on fire, he was trying to moon Hibbert and Marge on an ultrasound screen.